I thought of the former child soldier Guled and the many…

It's a Vietnamese soup that answers the question, 'What happens when a former child soldier pours hot rain water over fish nightmares.' It's delicious…

— Kyle Kinane

Over 20 million children of conflict are out of school. Education is often forgotten.

— Angelina Jolie

There's no pride in having been a child soldier.

— Emmanuel Jal

Universal ratification of the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict will establish an international moral consensus that no child should…

— Ban Ki-moon

It may seem unimaginable to you that child soldiers exist and yet the reality for many rebel and gang leaders, and even state governments,…

— Roméo Dallaire

A lot of child soldiers lose their minds.

— Emmanuel Jal

In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had…

— Forest Whitaker

As a child soldier, your rights are constantly violated.

— Ishmael Beah

I’m trying to learn more about international law to understand why we don’t have better solutions for conflict - for dictators or aggressors that…

— Angelina Jolie

“I give it to you now because, child of soldier, child of man, child of angel, it is not necessary to win the battle,…

— Jessica Shirvington

“This is what the war has done to me. Now I want to destroy because of it. There is such hate and rage inside…

— Loung Ung

For a man to be a man, did he have to be a soldier, or at least prepare himself for war? For a woman…

— Carol Gilligan

It's somewhat disquieting that the same parents and educators who are horrified by the notion of child soldiers have bestowed upon 'The Hunger Games'…

— Kenneth Oppel

Any child soldier has to go through a lot of love, care and understanding to become normal.

— Emmanuel Jal

We live in an idiotic capitalist self-indulgent society where the sex life of a pop star is more important than impending starvation, land mines…

— Peter Menzel